Before the Borden sisters

Harry · Post by **Harry** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 8:28 pm

there was the Ellingwood sisters. This article makes the Borden "girls" lives at Maplecroft look like heaven. They are even compared to Lizzie & Emma in the article.

http://www2.townonline.com/beverly/opin ... eid=215218

Wordweaver · Post by **Wordweaver** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 9:24 pm

Fascinating! I wonder if their brother ever bothered to give them a thought.

Maybe this story is the genesis of Myrtle Reed's Lavender and Old Lace -- a novel remembered now mostly for its bastard offspring, Arsenic and Old Lace. In the novel, a beautiful, frail old woman has waited all her life for her fiance to return. I won't spoil the ending, but the frail old woman is . . . 55.

Lavender and Old Lace is available online!

Lynn

Nona · Post by **Nona** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 11:27 pm

I rather liked Arsenic and old lace.........:)

snokkums · Post by **snokkums** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 10:53 am

Good job Harry! Love the article. It was very interesting. Guess there was another dsyfunctional family just like the bordens. HAHAHA

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 2:44 pm

Thanks Har!
That was pretty interesting.
Certainly the basis for a good Charles Dickens story and making into a film!

Allen · Post by **Allen** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 3:51 pm

Nona @ Thu Mar 31, 2005 11:27 pm wrote:I rather liked Arsenic and old lace.........:)

A agree, it's one of my favorite old movies. It's also where my signature comes from

Wordweaver · Post by **Wordweaver** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 4:01 pm

Nona @ Thu Mar 31, 2005 8:27 pm wrote:I rather liked Arsenic and old lace.........:)

I did too. The "bastard" refers not to nastiness (there isn't any), but to its subversion of the original story. Instead of Miss Ainslie, a sweet old New England lady who does nothing more controversial than raise flowers and wait for a long-lost fiance, the movie features sweet old ladies who commit wholesale murder. Miss Ainslie would be shocked.

Sorry for the confusion!

Lynn

doug65oh · Post by **doug65oh** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 4:52 pm

I'll have to look up the "seed" story.
"Arsenic" has to be the funniest film "Theodore Roosevelt" was ever in!
Charge!!!!

Nona · Post by **Nona** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 7:29 pm

YOu know I actually just love the whole movie so much I was trying to pin point one part or a line but ALL of it just strikes my funny bone like crazy! I can remember almost every line in that movie....

have to say that's actually one of my favorites of all time:)

Liz Crouthers · Post by **Liz Crouthers** » Tue May 10, 2005 8:16 pm

Never heard of 'em

augusta · Post by **augusta** » Sat May 14, 2005 9:06 pm

Rats - the article you posted about, Harry, is now archived and inaccessable.
I should google them. (That sounds dirty... Or a word a mother would make her kids substitute for something naughty.)

Ah'm gonna google yew, Harry! It just sounds so funny. I think Kat started it when she posted "I googled myself."